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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Broadcom takes over Intel, get ready for a wild ride and don't expect any kind of innovation ever again. If there ever was a backdoor in Intel CPUs, expect it to be opened up and used for licensing extortion. (That seems far fetched until you realize how fucking shady Broadcom is.)

While I shifted to the AMD bandwagon a while ago, I really wanted Intel's GPUs to develop more over the next decade and split the market up a bit more. Sigh.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in the industry but don't know much about broadcom. What makes you say that?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's just how their past takeovers went. Like Symantec oder VMware.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Broadcom is a scavenger predator

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

The scavenger predator formerly known as Avago Technologies Limited currently wears Broadcom as a skinsuit to disguise hostile takeovers as normal tech mergers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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